Alexander Matting

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Alexander Matting (* 21st November 1897 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † 1. December 1969 in Hannover ) was a German engineer of metallurgy and as a professor of materials science 1940-1943 rector of the Technical University of Hanover.

Life

Alexander Matting was the son of the future Lord Mayor of Breslau (1912-1919), Paul Matting (1859-1935). His mother was Bessie White from England.

Matting studied iron and steel engineering at the TH Breslau until 1925 . He then worked as an assistant at the Eisenhüttenmännisches Institut there until 1927 and did his doctorate with a "comparative thesis on the determination of free lime in slag and cements". He then began as a designer at Eisen- und Stahlwerke Hoesch AG in Dortmund and in 1928 he switched to the Technical Monitoring Association in Düsseldorf as an expert for materials testing and steam boiler engineering . From 1930 to 1935 he was Reichsbahnrat and head of the welding laboratory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Wittenberge . Parallel to his Reichsbahn activities, he was a lecturer for welding technology at the Technical University Wroclaw, where he joined in 1935 with the work "findings in the conduct of folding and tensile tests on welded steel" habilitated . In 1935 he was appointed professor of materials science at the Technical University of Hanover.

In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1940 to 1943 he led the university as rector. His portrait, which Adolf Wissel painted and which shows him with the rector's chain and military awards, dates from this time . Through his research on metalworking, he supported the armaments industry in World War II, for example with automated welding processes for the sectional construction of the submarine class XXI and the manufacture of the "Retaliation Weapon 2" .

From 1950 to 1952 Matting was a lecturer in welding technology and scientific advisor at the Instituto de la Soldadura (welding institute) in Madrid . He then returned to the TH Hannover and was also head of the official material testing institute for mechanical engineering and plastics and director of the Lower Saxony materials testing office. From 1960 to 1969 he headed the Lower Saxony working group of the German Society for Non-Destructive Testing. Matting was also a member of the German Society for Material Science .

Awards

  • 1968: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • Honorary member of the Instituto de la Soldadura (Welding Institute), Madrid
  • unknown military awards from World War I (see illustration on Wissel's portrait)

Fonts (selection)

  • Comparative work on the determination of free lime in slags and cements , dissertation TH Breslau, Hernhausser, Berlin 1927
  • Findings in the implementation of folding and tensile tests on welded steels , Habilitation TH Breslau 1935
  • Metal bonding: basics, technology, testing, behavior, calculation, applications , Springer, Berlin 1969

literature

  • Heinz Haferkamp :  Matting, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 417 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
  • Catalogus professorum 1831-1981 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 190.
  • Heinz Haferkamp, ​​in: Yearbook 1969 of the DGLR, p. 255
  • Adolf Wissel: Portrait of Alexander Matting, undated around 1942
  • Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Maier : Research as a weapon: Armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900-1945 / 48 (Volume 16, Parts 1–2), Wallstein, 2007, ISBN 9783835301092 , p. 780
  2. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Alexander Matting , accessed on March 8, 2010
  3. ↑ a b c Tobias Ronge: The image of the ruler in painting and graphics of National Socialism: An investigation into the iconography of leaders and functionaries in the Third Reich , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10856-2 , p. 223, after Michael Grüttner, Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 115, ISBN 3935025688 , accessed on February 21, 2011
  4. ↑ Helmut Maier: Research as a weapon: Armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900-1945 / 48 (Volume 16, Parts 1–2), Wallstein, 2007, ISBN 9783835301092 , p. 780 and 925; Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 , pp. 285, 287, 319
  5. ↑ History , accessed on March 8, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Matting, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgist; Rector of the Technical University of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1969
Place of death Hanover